New Titles for May 2009

A list of new books ordered in May 2009 is available on the Library website.

Some notable titles:

Creating and sustaining online professional learning communities / edited by Joni K. Falk and Brian Drayton ; foreword by Marcia C. Linn.
LB 1731 C692 2009




The qualitative dissertation : a guide for students and faculty / Maria Piantanida, Noreen B. Garman ; foreword by Frances Schoonmaker.
LB 2369 P48 2009




Service-learning and the liberal arts : how and why it works / edited by Craig A. Rimmerman.
LC 220.5 S4554 2009





Ethical practices and implications in distance learning / Ugur Demiray, Ramesh C. Sharma [editors].
LC 5800 E84 2009





Also, be sure to take a look at new titles in the IRC.

Is there a title you would like to see in our collection? Suggest a title using this online form.

Exporting book records from WorldCat to Refworks

It is easy to export book records from WorldCat to Refworks, but you do need to create an account in WorldCat. Once you sign up, you can add books to your list and from there export records to your Refworks account.

Watch this short video to see how it works: Exporting Records from WorldCat to Refworks.

Questions? Contact me for help.

How to Write a Literature Review

Thanks to Karen Bordonaro for sharing her slides on writing a literature review:

How to Write a Literature Review

View more OpenOffice presentations from jthiessen.

persistent linking to articles

Setting up a course in Sakai? Want to provide an easy way for your students to access articles?

See this Library page on creating persistent links to journal articles: http://www.library.brocku.ca/help/plinks.htm.

Need help? Talk to me.

more on twitter

Everyone's a-twitter:

Sounds like a lot of people are like me...create an account, tweet a bit and then that's it:
Quitters clipping Twitter's wings (CBC Online)

But Twitter keeps popping up as an educational tool--with thanks to Prof. Camille Rutherford for this one:
Professors experiment with Twitter as teaching tool (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

And a laugh for the middle of the week:
To Tweet or Not to Tweet (NY Times)

Earth Day Resources

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." – Dr. Seuss.

Today is Earth Day--celebrate Earth Day in your classroom today and every day. Take a look at some of these resources:

Earth Day Canada Official Website

EcoKids (Earth Day Canada)

Some great resources here: from colouring pages to activities.

Also, check out Celebrating Earth Day with EcoKids for some more background on Earth Day and links to activity ideas.

Free Educational Resources for Educators (Environment Canada)

Lesson plans and teacher resources for ages 5 through 18 on topics such as nature and wildlife, water conservation, climate change and more.

Ready, Set, Green! Tips, Techniques and Resources from Ontario's Educators (PDF)

Prepared by the Ontario Ministry of Education to support effective environmental education and environmentally sound practices in Ontario schools.

For great books, e-books and other resources in our libary, try searching using keywords like sustainable, environmental education, environment, conservation, etc.

Some to try:

Character and environment : a virtue-oriented approach to environmental ethics / Ronald L. Sandler.

9TH FLOOR OF LIBRARY
GE 42 S26 2007

Understanding sustainable development / John Blewitt

9TH FLOOR OF LIBRARY
HC 79 E5 B58 2008

The David Suzuki reader / David Suzuki

9TH FLOOR OF LIBRARY
GF 50 S89 2003

Go green, live rich : 50 simple ways to save the Earth and get rich trying / David Bach
POPULAR READING 2ND FLOOR
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50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice

From The Chronicle of Higher Education, Geoffrey K. Pullum writes, "April 16 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of a little book that is loved and admired throughout American academe. Celebrations, readings, and toasts are being held, and a commemorative edition has been released.

I won't be celebrating.

The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates. Its advice ranges from limp platitudes to inconsistent nonsense. Its enormous influence has not improved American students' grasp of English grammar; it has significantly degraded it."

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